[Pkg-virtualbox-commits] [SCM] virtualbox Debian packaging branch, experimental, updated. debian/4.1.18-dfsg-2-39-gd51bd58

Felix Geyer fgeyer at debian.org
Sun Mar 31 18:38:41 UTC 2013


The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit d932944c23db5a377a8455cfca8b00d742ec5c1d
Author: Felix Geyer <fgeyer at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Mar 31 19:34:03 2013 +0200

    Add a disclaimer to explain why the package is in the "contrib" archive area.

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 503d5ca..869aa1f 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:33:00 +0100.
 
 It was downloaded from <http://www.virtualbox.org/>.
 
+This package is not part of the Debian operating system.
+It is in the "contrib" area of the Debian archive because it requires a
+non-free compiler (Open Watcom) to build the BIOS.
+Upstream provides pre-built BIOS images which is used instead.
+
 Upstream Author: Oracle Corporation
 
 Copyright:

-- 
virtualbox Debian packaging



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